QQuora, Inc.·Data Scientist

Quora, Inc. Data Scientist interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Nov 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

For my new-grad experience, I put a lot of effort into preparing for A/B testing since it seemed to be the core theme.

The take-home challenge before the interviews ended up being really hard and time consuming, and it consumed a lot more of my energy than I expected. After finishing that, I went into an interview where I felt like the interviewer was trying to challenge every point I made, almost like they wanted me to prove the smallest details.

During that conversation, I spent a long stretch discussing one metric I proposed, and it felt like they had an expected answer but weren’t interested in offering hints when my reasoning diverged. I didn’t move forward to an offer. In another separate attempt with

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